From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw@agere.com>
To: <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F00107556B@pauex2ku08.agere.com> (raw)
Eric Blake wrote:
> I hope you meant breach[1], not breech[2].
Maybe he meant the back of the barrel, as in "we're
getting ready to pull the trigger".
> Your subject reminded me of one of the early English
> translations of the Bible, where the translator picked the
> wrong word in Genesis 3:7 (http://sunnyokanagan.com/breeches/).
That reminds be of the time when I translated Monopoly
into Latin for a school project. I guess it must have
been late when I looked that one up, since I ended up
calling "Community Chest" something along the lines of
"Communitas Pectas" (you got it, "Community Breast").
:-)
-gsw
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 14:33 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) [this message]
2006-01-11 16:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-01-11 17:33 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-11 22:02 ` One Angry User
2006-01-12 0:08 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-12 0:18 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-12 10:51 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-12 13:32 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-12 21:34 ` Joe Smith
2006-01-12 22:01 ` Ed C. Lueless
2006-01-13 0:07 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 15:01 ` Joe Smith
2006-01-13 15:10 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-13 15:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2006-01-13 16:38 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 16:49 ` Eric Blake
2006-01-13 16:59 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 17:06 ` Ed C. Lueless
2006-01-13 17:15 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-13 16:54 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-13 17:00 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 17:08 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-13 17:41 ` once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I canrelease " Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 17:15 ` once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release " Dave Korn
2006-01-13 17:42 ` Igor Peshansky
2006-01-13 17:59 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-13 18:48 ` once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I canrelease " Igor Peshansky
2006-01-12 4:30 ` once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release " Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-01-15 5:20 ` * *
2006-01-15 5:41 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2006-01-16 10:33 ` Dave Korn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-18 18:13 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2006-01-18 18:27 ` Dave Korn
2006-01-17 15:26 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2006-01-17 15:38 ` Dave Korn
[not found] <20060111022341.GA31671@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2006-01-11 14:13 ` Eric Blake
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